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14-06-2019 | Original Paper

National Survey of Juvenile Community Supervision Agency Practices and Caregiver Involvement in Behavioral Health Treatment

Auteurs: Angela A. Robertson, Matthew Hiller, Richard Dembo, Michael Dennis, Christy Scott, Brandy F. Henry, Katherine S. Elkington

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 11/2019

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Abstract

Objectives

This study sought to expand the sparse literature examining the extent to which family engagement interventions and the structural characteristics of juvenile community supervision agencies influence caregiver participation in youths’ behavioral health (i.e., mental health and substance use) treatment.

Methods

We analyzed data from a national survey of juvenile community supervision agencies, conducted as a part of a Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJTRIALS) Cooperative Agreement funded by NIH/NIDA.

Results

Findings indicated agencies employ a variety of family engagement strategies, with passive strategies like services referrals and flexible schedules being more common than active strategies like provision of family therapy. Multivariate prediction of caregiver involvement in behavioral health care showed the most consistent effects for rural-urban location of the agency; rural agencies more successfully engaged families in their youth’s behavioral healthcare. Relatedly, the more family engagement services, the greater the involvement of families in behavioral health treatment. Agencies with a juvenile drug treatment court also showed greater involvement.

Conclusions

Our findings that juvenile justice agencies are using multiple techniques to engage families, and that there is a relationship between use of these techniques and actual family engagement, would benefit from replication over time and in other jurisdictions. Analysis of data from a second wave of the national survey, recently completed, is expected to test the reliability of our findings over time, as well as identify whether and what kind of changes occurred in the 2 years following the first survey.
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Metagegevens
Titel
National Survey of Juvenile Community Supervision Agency Practices and Caregiver Involvement in Behavioral Health Treatment
Auteurs
Angela A. Robertson
Matthew Hiller
Richard Dembo
Michael Dennis
Christy Scott
Brandy F. Henry
Katherine S. Elkington
Publicatiedatum
14-06-2019
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 11/2019
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01488-4